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jenni8fer 's review for:
Dark Pines
by Will Dean
Debut mystery novel by a non-writer. The story was okay. I didn't find it particularly dark. It did have some interesting characters.
I had a huge issue with the author's writing style and his choice of words. His writing seemed inconsistent throughout. At times, I had the feeling he was rushing through scenes instead of taking the time to flesh them out better. He also clearly does a poor job writing female characters, even if LGBTQ. The female protagonist's narrative just reads as though it is playing out through a male character's eyes, thoughts, and actions versus those of a woman. Overall, it just didn't work as a whole for me.
Tuva Moodyson is 26 and has moved from London back to a small town in Sweden called Gavrik to be close to her mother in hospice care though she never takes the time to visit her. Tuva is a journalist at the small local paper when a body shows up missing its eyes in the dark forest. Having worked as an intern at The Guardian in London, Tuva sees this murder as her big opportunity to write a sensational story allowing her to be picked up as a journalist for a larger paper in a big city. Other same murders happen and there is a link to similar murders from the 1990s that suddenly stopped shortly after they began. To investigate, Tuva has to fight against small-town politics to not disparage the town's name while also digging to report the dirty truth without the assistance of the police.
I had a huge issue with the author's writing style and his choice of words. His writing seemed inconsistent throughout. At times, I had the feeling he was rushing through scenes instead of taking the time to flesh them out better. He also clearly does a poor job writing female characters, even if LGBTQ. The female protagonist's narrative just reads as though it is playing out through a male character's eyes, thoughts, and actions versus those of a woman. Overall, it just didn't work as a whole for me.
Tuva Moodyson is 26 and has moved from London back to a small town in Sweden called Gavrik to be close to her mother in hospice care though she never takes the time to visit her. Tuva is a journalist at the small local paper when a body shows up missing its eyes in the dark forest. Having worked as an intern at The Guardian in London, Tuva sees this murder as her big opportunity to write a sensational story allowing her to be picked up as a journalist for a larger paper in a big city. Other same murders happen and there is a link to similar murders from the 1990s that suddenly stopped shortly after they began. To investigate, Tuva has to fight against small-town politics to not disparage the town's name while also digging to report the dirty truth without the assistance of the police.